Halmos Faculty Featured Speaker for USTA Florida on Conflict Resolution

Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., director of the doctoral program and faculty member in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, was the featured speaker for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in Florida. McKay spoke to a group of adult play coordinators on conflict resolution on and off the tennis courts.

McKay is the faculty adviser to the Social Justice Roundtable and works with students in the community through Community Resolution Services, a practicum and volunteer site for DCRS. Community Resolution Services hosts Story Café, the We Love our Families series and The Women’s Roundtable, and offers workshops for Broward County’s crisis intervention teams and other events for community groups and organizations.

McKay’s scholarly interests include conflict coaching, strategic community planning, violence prevention, and intervention in family, neighborhood and organizational conflicts. For more information about Community Resolution Services, contact McKay at mckayj@nova.edu.

Posted 03/17/24